[ovs-discuss] OVS 2.4 Release Plans

[Ashok Chippa]

Yes I did... "We feel we are making progress on that front, and once
support is added, we will follow it up quickly with another release, which
will likely be the next LTS"

I was looking for a ballpark data for the next LTS... Assuming 4 per year,
within the next 3 to 4 months? Would that be more or less right?

thanks


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> Did you read what Justin wrote?
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:43:35AM -0700, Ashok Chippa wrote:
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > Any ETA for OVS2.4 with Conntrack?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ashok
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > We wanted to provide a quick update on the plan for the next couple
> > > releases.  OVS 2.4 is shaping up to be a big release with a number of
> great
> > > new features people are anxious to use. Some of the highlights include:
> > >
> > >         - Native Linux kernel STT support
> > >         - Geneve tunneling
> > >         - DPDK vhost and tunneling
> > >         - OpenFlow 1.4 bundles (flow transactions)
> > >         - Bash command completion
> > >         - RSTP
> > >         - Multicast snooping
> > >         - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
> > >
> > > The plan is to branch early next week and have an official release
> ready
> > > roughly six weeks after that.
> > >
> > > We originally had planned to release OVS 2.4 when the new connection
> > > tracking features were merged into the upstream kernel. Unfortunately,
> this
> > > has taken longer than we anticipated.  We feel we are making progress
> on
> > > that front, and once support is added, we will follow it up quickly
> with
> > > another release, which will likely be the next LTS.
> > >
> > > Finally, on the subject of LTS, we plan to release OVS 2.3.2 next week,
> > > which contains a number of bug fixes.
> > >
> > > Happy switching!
> > >
> > > --Justin
> > >
> > >
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